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, 1887-03-01
NEW OIL FIELDS.
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titles.

Attention is being directed to the oil
fields on or neal to Salt creek, half way
between Douglas and Buffalo and about
forty miles southeast of the last named
place. For some years it has been known
that oil was to be found in that region,
bnt to what extent was not known until
lately. 1t now transpires that there are
wells there from which oil is constantly
flowing in large quantities. Indeed, 80
thoroughly impregnated is the soil of the
region along and adjacent to Salt creek,
that the water in springs and streams
tastes so strongly of parafne hat in some
INSTANCES the cattle will not drink it.
james Deane, who for a long time lived
in'that region of country, states that he
has found places along Salt creek where
the lubricating oil bubbles up from the
ground in unlimited quantities. 1t is not
necessary to bore for oil in this section of
the country, for it is to be found on or
near the surface. Ofcourse boring would
result in a much larger yield.
Mr.. Deane stated that not only himself
but many other parties who are familiar
with this section of the territory could
testify to these facts if it wa necessary 10
do so. Deane first discovered these natu-
raj oil wells in 1888, and has since that
date frequently been over the ground, and
each time he has made new discoveries.
The ieldsalong this creek are quite ex-
%tensive, and it would seem from what can
be learned that they are as prolific in oil,
if not more so, than some of the far famed
oil regions OF Pennsylvania. All that APP
pears to be needed is development and a
market. If the Cheyenne & Northern
railroad should eventually take a tack in
the direction of Douglas and from that
point on to Buffalo. as seems quite proba-
Bile. it would run right through or noar
this new oil region and the question of its
speedy development would be solved at
once. Truly Wyoming has natural re-
souces which are almost invaluable in ex-
tent and value.
, 1887-03-01
Proposals for Publishing the Revived
statutes OF Wy0minx.

Proposals will be received at the office
of the revision and compilation commits
sion, Room 6. Delaware block, Cheyenne,
Wyoming, until March Is, 1887, for the
printing and binding Of the Revised
Statutes of Wyoming, as provided in an
act of the Ninth Legislative Assembly of
the territory, entitled an Act to adopt
and establish the Revised Statutes of
Wyoming, and providing for the editing
and publishing OF the same approved
March 10, 1886. The specifications, re-
quirements and restrictions relating to said
work may he obtained on application to
Frederic s. Hebard, clerk Of the commits
sion.
The commission reserves the right to
reject any and all bids.
j. w. BLAKE,
WILLIS VAN DEvAsrER.
ISAAC p. CALDWELL,
Commissioners.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. ), 1887.
, 1887-03-01
Notice Of annual Meeting

The annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Little Medicine Bow and Richard
Greek Irrigating Ditch company for the
election of trustees and for the transac-
ton of such other business as may pro-
perlv ONE before the meeting. will be
held at the Office of the company here on
Monday, the It'll day of March, 1887, at
10 o'clock forenoon.
a. f. RIcHEY. Secretary.
Cheyenne, Wyo., Feb. %, 1887.
, 1887-03-01
Blown Down.

Two chimneys were blown down on
one of our Cheyenne hotels Sunday
morning and a portion of one of them
came through the roof. Had it not been
for the wires which had been supporting
the chimney, which broke the force of
the collapse, serious injury would probably
have occurred to one of the dodgers.
, 1887-03-01

The best blood purifier and system reg,
ulator ever placed within reach of suffer.
ing humanity, truly is Electric Ditters.
Inactivity of the liver, b%iliousness, jaun-
dice, constipation, weak kidneys, or any
disease Of the urinary organs, or whoever
requires an appetizer, tonic, or mild slim
ulant, will always find Electric Bitters the
best and only certain cure known. They
act surely and quickly, every bottle guar.
anteed to give entire satisfaction or money
refunded. Sold at fifty cents a bottle by
W. n. Hunt.
, 1887-03-01

Rev. d. L. RAIDER returned from Up
ton, Col, last Saturday, at which place,
during the week, he had been holding a
series of revival meetings. One of the re-
suits of DR.. RAIDERS work was the uniting
with the church at that place of twenty
seven persons who had become converts
during the time he was engaged in his
Iabors.
, 1887-03-01

Positively cured by Darbys Prophylactic
Fluid. Battle with a little of the Fluid
added to the water. A single application
will allay the itching, soothe all inAamma-
ton, deodorize all offensiveness and
staunch the bleeding. letter and Scald
Head are quickly cured by Darbys Prophy-
Tactic FLUID.
, 1887-03-01

The Fox coal, which is by actual test far the
best Colorado soft coal in the market A
trial of this coal will convince anyone that
this is the fact. Sold in large or small
quantities and delivered to any part of
the city at A. G. McGREGoR's.
, 1887-03-01
NEW LOCAL NOTICES.


In this city, Saturday last, a pocketbook
containing letters, etc. The owner can
secure his property by calling at this office
and paying for this notice.
, 1887-03-01

The Pacific hotel dining hall is now
ready to accommodate as many day board
ers as may favor us with their patronage.
The table will not be excelled by any in
the city. F. r. LAsHER,
MANAGER
, 1887-03-01

The largest stock OF hne brandies, old
whistles, choice l%iqueurs and superine
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets
, 1887-03-01
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b warranted. ia because it Is tho best
blood Preparation known. 1t will posi-
lively cure all Blood Diseases, purifes the
whole system. and thoroughly builds up the
constitution. Remember. we guarantee It
Pearse & McGill. Druggists.
, 1887-03-01

For fine watch repairing
DAVID MILLER, Idelman block
, 1887-03-01

FERRIS MOVES HOUSES
206 Fifteenth street.
, 1887-03-01

IS & historical Dept; Cheyenne, uyo.
, 1887-03-01
For RENT-By Ferris. nicely furnished
houses and rooms. 2O6 Fifteenth street

For ENT.-OHices. houses and fur
nished or unfinished rooms. s. B.
Tuttle, with f. f. Warren.
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Old Time witches in Maine.

Whittier has very deftly alluded to the
old SO called witch, "Goody Cole, of
Hampton in his Wreck of Rivermouth. "
In 'sThe Changeling'' he tells another
Hampton story Of the old delusion. Peos
pie point now at this day to the site of
the grave where Goody Cole was buried
with an iron bar over her head to exor-
else the evil spirit which even death was
not supposed to destroy. If it astonishes
us to hear of these beliefs in that old
time, how much more astonishing it is to
hear middle aged people now relate the eff
feet that this delusion had on their fathers.
One lady tells me that her mother when
young girl slipped darning needle be-
tween the chair and the gown of a GER
tain unbidden guest who so late as that
had the unenviable witch taint. The
contact of steel was supposed to be-
witch the witch and hold her fast
from movement or evil doing. "She
was sitting near the fire." my en-
tertalning raconteuse went on naively,
''and she kept complaining and complain
ing of the heat, but she never rose and
moved away until that needle fell!'
Another story followed of the lady's
grandfather, who, perceiving the approach
of this same possessed one, flung his
hatchet into the ground before her. The
witch harangued and storlned, but would
not pass on until the hatchet was re-
moved from the pathl
s'Oh, don't believe in witchcraft, but
it was queer, wasn't it?'' my story teller
coucl11ded
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Antidotes of Poisonous Chemicals.

As antidotes of some of the poisonous
chemicals used in various industries, The
Moniteur des Produits Chimiques recon-
mends that for arsenic and its compounds
the subject use mustard and dialyzed
iron with magnesia, and afterward oil,
milk or mucilaginous liquids; for the
compounds of baryta or lead, use mustard
as emetic with warm water, EPSON salts
Or Glauber's salts in water; for oxalic
acid and its salts use lime or lime water,
and afterward castor oil; for the nitrous
fumes from the manufacture of nitrate of
iron or of sulphuric acid take acetic acid,
as strong as can be endured, in small
quantities at time; for ammonia, Soda
potassa, the silicates and the alkaline
hydrosulphates use vinegar, and after1
ward oil or milk; for prussic acid and
its salts, the cyanides Of potassium and
mercury, the sulphocyanides, oil of bitte1
almonds OF nitrobenzine, pour water on|
the patients head or spinal column, put
mustard plasters on the soles of the feet
and on the stomach, and do not let the
patient go to sleep; for ether, petroleum,
benzole, fruit essences and concentrated
alcohol, take strong mustard as an
emetic, with much warm water, cold
baths and fresh air, also keeping awake.
Chicago Journal.
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webster,s Last Male Descendant,

Ashburton Webster, the last male de-
scendant of Daniel Webster, died in New
York city Jan. %, 1879. He was the
son of Col. Fletcher Webster, who was
killed at the head of his regiment in the
war for the suppression Of the rebellion.
and was born the same year that Lord
Ashburton, his grandfather friend, died.
He was educated at the Naval academy
at Annapolis, but did not enter the navy.
Afterwards he studied law, but practiced
it very little, if any. Most of his life
was passed at Marshfeld, which he in
herited from his grandfather, and where
he caught the cold that finally killed him,
when the old mansion was burned in rs.
Not a single ray of ancestral glory llu-
mined his uneventful career or frightened
its close. He simply exchanged the OBJ
scurity of life for the deeper obscurity of
death, and probably not 500 people in the
land knew that he had ever lived until
he had ceased to ive.-Ben: Perley
Poore's Letter.
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..FatteningY CameIs for the Market.

FattenlnS CamelS for the Market.
The method by which camels are sud-
denly s'fattened'' for the market is thus
described:
An incision, about an inch in length, is
made in each ear, between the skin and
the flesh. Into this small tube is fitted
and secured by silk cord. There it re-
mains, hidden from the observation of all
but the initiated and ready for use at any
moment.
When merchant who is not acquaint-
ed with the blowing up trick comes to
buy camel the dealer takes two tubes,
each a yard long, and inserting one end
of each in the small tubes just described.
through the other ends two Arabs blow
with all their might, until the animal has
attained the requisite degree of plump
ness. The initiating tubes are then with
drawn and the air is prevented from es-
Gaping by means of "a cork smeared with
pitch.
The poor camel now becomes apRaFent-
ly quite lively and frisky, trying to throw
itself on the ground or to press against a
wall or tree or whatever other object
may be at hand, SO as to get rid of the
wind. 1t is generally too well watched
by the rascally Arab to succeed in accom-
plishing its purpose.
Sometimes, however, it manages to
elude his vigilance, aud then, if the cork
is not very securely fastened, the wind
escapes with a whistle like that of a
steam engine, and the fine looking beast
suddenly collapses into the miserable OBJ
iect it really is Among the Arabs. y
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Mime. RistOri,s First Appearance.

The Vienna Allgemeine Zeitung pub
fishes an interesting extract from the
forthcoming memoirs of Nine. Ristori,
according to which the famous actress
made her debut on the stage at the age
of three months. Her parents being both
actors, they consented to her appearing
in the play 'sThe New Years Present, " in
one of whose scenes an infant is sent in
basket to its grandfather. Her debut,
however, was failure, as she began cry
ing long before she ought to have done
so totally spelling the effect. Her Sec
ond attempt, at the age of 8 years, was
not much more successful, for when at
tackled by the villain in ''Bianca and
Fernando" who threatened to murder
her in the presence Of her mother, shere
sisted desperately, biting and scratching
her assailant until the public roared with
laughter a year and half later she
was intrusted with little roles in farces,
taking her task seriously and assuming
the airs of her older colleagues; and at
the age of IS she was regular member
of a stock company under the manage
ment of the actor Moncalvo. New York
POST
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A Paris correspondent tells about the
new handkerchiefs the ladies are carrying
there. The Princess de Sagan's favorite
handkerchief is bordered with garland of
scarlet pinks; flowers and leaves embroid-
cred in their natural colors. They are
scented with the strong perfume extracted
from the same flowers. The blonde Mar
quise de Grehfuhle has all of her hand
kerchiefs embroidered with the corn
flower in all its variegated blue shades,
and her perfume is the sweet scented
clover. Pink bastiste, with white lilies
of the valley worked on them, is the
Duchess de Bragama's favorite handker-
chief. The empress of Japan has ordered
pale beige ones, worked with chrysanthe-
NUNS of all existing colors. The widows
handkerchief is pale lilac, worked with
dark purple scab@us. New York Sun.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-10-15
Talk with a Wine Expert.

''Does wine get seasick?' asked re-
porter of a champagne expert.
Certainly it does, y he answered, land
it does not recover from it until it has
laid a month undisturbed in a cellar
where the temperature does not vary. In
warm weather it requires longer rest.
This is why our firm imports as little as
possible during the summer months.
Frost is also a great enemy of pure cham
pagne, and it is dangerous to import it
during very cold weather. When touched
by frost wine becomes aaky, and it often
takes months for it to recover. The facili-
ties for protecting wine from frost while
in transit from Reims to the seaboard are
very poor, even if the wine was not
affected by the voyage.
"Clarets and Burgundies should rest
month to recover from the effects of
sea voyage. Rhine wine cannot be i'm
ported at all in summer except in glass,
and even then it needs rest. Englishmen
imagine that champagne is not fit to
drink until it becomes mellow with age
and has lost its sparkle. This is an absurd
idea. In this condition it is really a kind
of Chablis. Clarets, with rare exceptions,
are unfit to drink after becoming ten
years old. New York Evening Sun.
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Four Kinds of Partisan Restaurants.

EOuF A1nuS OF EaT1Sldu 3SeStaur ants.
The Partisan restaurants may be divi-
ded into four classes First come the
'sCremeries, kind of dairy eating
house, and chiefly supported by the lower
classes; the Embellishments Duval, = the
restaurants "a fixe prix" and the re5tau
rants "a La CARTE I" To the last class be-
long, of course, the fashionable and ex-
pensive cafes of the great boulevards,
such as the Anglais, the Maison Doree
and the Cafe Bignon. The last mem
toned, by the way, is in the Champs
Elysees, and its scale of prices is outrage
Gus, probably due to the fact that its pa
tronage is almost entirely English and
American. A little further down in the
scale come multitude of restaurants "a la
carte, " all good and comparatively rea-
sonable. The great trouble is that one
dining alone must either be prepared to
content himself with very simple din
ner, as far as variety is concerned, or else
be obliged to order twice as much as he
can eat at a proportionate addition to his
bill. One portion for two people is the
almost invariable order in a Partisan res
taurant ''a la carte, and some of them
will even serve portion for three. I'm
less one dimes there in company with a
friend or some accommodating stranger.
ne will find that the saving. as compared
with Delmonico's in New York, is little
or nothing, except, perhaps, in the single
item of wine.
The dinners sa fixe prix' vary, of
course, in quality and variety, according
to the price. The table d'hote at six or
eight francs is far superior to anything
outside of France, and from that one
may dine as low down as franc and a
quarter. But the cheap French table
d'hote is the worst atrocity that reckless
man can infict on his long suffering self.
The service is always poor, the room al
ways crowded, the table, linen and glass
ware always dirty, and the cooking, with
but few exceptions, always bad. The
only thing that is almost invariably good
is the bread, but then the restaurants
themselves do not make it, but buy it
from the bakeries. Cor. New York
World.
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The Pacific Coast Boundary.

The Pacific ocean boundary of the
United States has a greater extent of
coast line than the Atlantic shore. The
aggregate of our shore line on the Pacific
is 12, 734 miles, while on the Atlantic it
is II, 800 miles and on the Gulf of Mexico
6,843. California contains 1, 1876 miles of
the coast line on the Pacific, while she
also has 272 miles of island shore
and 240 miles of tide water river
shore, making altogether 1,64S miles of
shore line. Texas has an actual coast
line on the gulf of 1900 miles, while
Florida has Liza on the gulf and 1868
miles on the Atlantic, so that both exceed
California in this particular 1t was the
annexation of Alaska that promoted the
Pacific coast to higher figure than the
Atlantic, Alaska having $3.50 miles of
coast line. These figures are taken from
the coast survey reports. Boston Post.
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a DANGEROUS PRAIRIE GROWTH

The Curious Plant Known as the ssTum-
Bile Weed"-A Great Menace.
w. F. Niederlander, prominent real
estate man, has on exhibition in the win
dow of his Office fine specimen of the
curious plant known as the ''tumble
weed. " This specimen was taken from
the old fair grounds last year after the
grounds were abandoned. The plant is
a mass of branches, spherical in form,
and so tightly interviewer as to form al
most compact mass. Like the earth,
this globulous mass of branches is fiat
tened at the poles-or more So The pres
ent specimen is about five feet at its
greatest diameter. Mr.. Niederlander says
he has seen specimens fully twice the size.
The weed once grew plentifully through
this country and Colorado. When green
they present very pretty appearance,
and look more like dwarf tree than
weed. They are very dangerous in case
of prairie fire, and often dangerous in
plain wind storms when there is no fire.
In case of fire the flames seem to strip
the plant of its leaves, and it at once goes
rolling before the flaming hurricane a
perfect wheel of fire. These revolving
wheels of fire will jump any ordinary
furrow or fire break and carry the fire
into the timber or grass, as the case may
be. Nothing can stop their progress but
a river. Into these they jump, leaping
out into the stream forty, fifty or sixty
feet, and go down with hiss, throwing
up column of steam where they sink.
81 have seen hundreds of these plants
in Barber county and the Siquashie val
ley," said Mr.. Niederlander. "When
started to rolling in fire no ordinary
horse can run before them. Once, in the
Siquashie valley, only saved myself liy
driving my team into the river, which l
fortunately reached just in time.''.
In Colorado wind storms these weeds
are also source of much danger. In
Middle park few years ago a party of
travellers We're suddenly overtaken by q
storm. Seeing what they supposed to be
mass of huge powders in the distance,
they made for them, thinking they would
afford at least partial shelter. To their
surprise, as they approached, the bowl
ders suddenly broke loose and commenced
rolling toward them at furious rate,
cutting all sorts of curious capers and gy-
rating menacingly as they came At
times they would strike an obstruction and
bound high in the air, and again striking
the ground resume their rapid, circular
motion. The travellers put spurs to their
horses, and it was only by the greatest
effort that they managed to escape from
the track of these monsters, On exami-
nation they found their supposed bowl
ders were really immense weeds which
had been torn up by the roots by the
wind storm.
These weeds are SO solid that they are
a great menace to man and beast under
such circumstances. Impelled by heavy
wind, they would go with force enough
to kill a horse, and human being is in
great danger if he cannot get out of the
track of these monsters when they are
running before a hurricane or in case of
a prairie Wichita Journal
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from the pulp is exceedingly simple, and
lis similar in all the lines made by the
company. In making pail, for in
stance, the machine for first molding the
pail from hepulp provided with hollow
perforated form of cast iron, shaped like
the inside of pail, and covered first with
perforated brass and then with fine wire
cloth. This form, worked by hydraulic
piston, is pushed up into large cast iron
that, which fits over it very tightly.
Within this hat is placed flexible
rubber bag, and between this and the in
ner form first mentioned is admitted the
pulp, still In liquid state. The pulp
being pumped in under pressure, the
water Immediately begins to drain off
through the wire cloth and perforations,
and the rubber bag swells until it fills the
hat. The supply of pulp is then shut off,
and water under high pressure is admit
ted within the hat and outside the rubber
bag, thus squeezing much of the water
from the pulp. After standing some
eight to ten minutes the pressure is shut
off, the inner form lowered and the pulp
pail removed.
At this stage the pail is nearly so per
cent. water, but is sufficiently strong to
allow handling. This water is first all
dried out in dry kilns, and then the pail
is turned off on the outside with gang
of saws. After sandpapering inside and
out the pail is ready for the treatment
house, where it is charged with water
proofing compound which permeates
thoroughly the material of which the
pail is made. Baking in ovens at high
temperature succeeds each dip or treat
ment. The polish which the goods
present is described as being the result of
the final treatment. After this the handles
are riyeted on the goods, which are then
ready for the market. Railway Review.
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The Real Hero.

81 never could understand how the
newspapers or general public could ap-
plaud a desperate who announces his in
tention of dying with his boots on, {" re-
marked a physician the other day. ga
man who calmly faces death from an in
durable disease, while he goes about his
usual occupation OF is cheerful at home,
is the one to admire. ! have such pa
tient now. He knows there is no hope,
yet he is almost Indifferent to his fate. 1t
is difficult to fully appreciate such heroic
conduct. His calmness will have one
good effect. 1t will serve to prolong his
life. It is even as good as medicine for
him. Philadelphia Call.
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The oueen.s Life at Balmora1.

A correspondent, after picturing the
simplicity of the life at Balmoral dur
ing the queens stay there, describes one
of her ordinary everyday breakfasts. The
following is the menu of the breakfast
served one day last week: Scotch por-
ridge, cold rump steak pie, hot rump
steak, cold CANNON of bacon, boiled
eggs, Scotch scones, brown bread, butter,
honey, tea, coffee, and a kind of cocoa
specially prepared for the queen. The
porridgo was placed on the sideboard,
and was served to each guest in blue and
white china basins. These basins were
Gllnd h. tl,n .attnI,da utS DC . mo ttc,,. Of